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Pocket Reading List : Week 2.2 of April

How We Found the Dinosaur Doomsday Site : Please tell me that I wasn't the only person who didn't know that scientists were fairly convinced of the location of the asteroid that supposedly killed off the dinosaurs! And the scientists are now conducting an expedition to drill and extract tons of rock from the location on the sea floor to study the rock and understand the event that even toddlers know about!

You have no idea where camels really come from : Science is an amazing thing! It's surprising how every day there's something new to learn. Today, you'll learn that the erstwhile camels that are ubiquitous in the deserts might actually be from the arctic! Hooves thought to have evolved to help them move in the slippery sand could have actually evolved to help them walk on snow! Humps that were supposed to have evolved to help them store water and energy in the desert could have actually evolved to do the same in a frozen arctic!

Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets - Smarter Every Day 153 : You can skip the first minute or so of the video because it gets really interesting afterwards. As we all know, magnets have two poles, North and South, which are usually on opposite sides of a chunk of material. This video taught me that not only can we print magnets on to a material, we can also place the North and South poles of the magnet on the same side leading to a stronger magnetic field near the surface!

One Man’s Impossible Quest to Read—and Review—the World : This is the story of a man who, as mentioned in the title, wants to read about everything in the world! What I found interesting about this man was how he was able to draw similarities between disparate authors and works to talk about how one could have inspired the other or how two people wrote about the same event, decades apart!

Buck v. Bell: Inside the SCOTUS Case That Led to Forced Sterilization of 70,000 & Inspired the Nazis : Nazi scientists were put on the stand, after Hitler surrendered, or rather died, and Germany was defeated and asked the question as to how they could justify killing off and sterilising Jewish people! And surprisingly, the Nazi scientists pointed their finger back at scientists, and the Supreme Court, of the USA and how forced sterilisation was not only legal but widely rampant in pre-1940 USA.

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